I went to the site, saw the link you describe (NSA) and spent a whole lot of time browsing. It's very cool...the color coding for the different
languages. Reminds me of a galactic cluster; smaller sites grouped around larger, more prominent ones. The centre of our internet galaxy is Google,
Facebook, Yahoo, and Youtube.

Originally posted by JPhish
Perhaps some savvy users who know a bit about algorithms can tell us why ATS has such a "cyberspace" neighbor?

From the About link at the top of the site:

The Internet map is a bi-dimensional presentation of links between websites on the Internet. Every site is a circle on the map, and its size is
determined by website traffic, the larger the amount of traffic, the bigger the circle. Users’ switching between websites forms links, and the
stronger the link, the closer the websites tend to arrange themselves to each other.

ohhh, snap....i am sure you realize this is your subjective reality objectified, right before your eyes. Isn't this what everyone wanted?
Visualized in 3D, removing us from flat world forever, just by a wish and a click? Where did you want ATS to be? All you have to do is mobilize and
"click," is that not the "reality" everyone has been waiting for?

Funny this gets brought up. A couple of years ago I witnessed a member bring this to the attention of ATS. He showed how the ip's all led back to the
DoD. There was actually another conspiracy site created out of all this madness. Lots of members were banned and some left willingly, no longer
trusting the 'owners' of ATS.

Originally posted by Ear-Responsible
Funny this gets brought up. A couple of years ago I witnessed a member bring this to the attention of ATS. He showed how the ip's all led back to the
DoD. There was actually another conspiracy site created out of all this madness. Lots of members were banned and some left willingly, no longer
trusting the 'owners' of ATS.

edit on 28-7-2012 by Ear-Responsible because: (no reason given)

and as per your sig, it's all the expectation, is it not? you have what you want, no?

That's not what it was about. there were connections to the owners, that this was actually a controlled website by the DoD. I'm not saying it was
but it was a pretty big deal a couple of years ago. Lost a good 100+ members if not more.

Originally posted by Ear-Responsible
Funny this gets brought up. A couple of years ago I witnessed a member bring this to the attention of ATS. He showed how the ip's all led back to the
DoD. There was actually another conspiracy site created out of all this madness. Lots of members were banned and some left willingly, no longer
trusting the 'owners' of ATS.

edit on 28-7-2012 by Ear-Responsible because: (no reason given)

You mean the prank? The one where the IP addresses were not even real IP addresses?

If so, then it's a sign of how gullible people are. If they cannot even see things for what they are, and jump ship.. well, good riddance lol

What a great visual aid ... just goes to show how complex the internet "universe" really is

However, the following has me somewhat scratching my head and wondering what sort of links actually do exist between ATS and the NSA.
From the "about" info, we have the following...

Users’ switching between websites forms links, and the stronger the link, the closer the websites tend to arrange
themselves to each other

Is the above telling us that there is indeed a very large amount of website jumping happening between ATS and NSA which results in the closeness of
the two sites as shown in that map ? If so, then who is doing the linking ? Is it ATS members switching to the NSA site .... or is it the NSA people
switching to ATS and observing/monitoring our activity ?

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